Singer/songwriter Perfume Genius (aka Michael Alden Hadreas) has contributed original music to the upcoming drama National Anthem. Nick Urata (Paddington, Little Miss Sunshine, Focus, Crazy, Stupid, Love., Ruby Sparks) has composed the original score for the film directed by Luke Gilford and starring Charlie Plummer, Eve Lindley, Rene Rosado, Mason Alexander Park and Robyn Lively. The movie revolves around a 21 year-old construction worker in New Mexico who joins a community of queer rodeo performers in search of their own version of the American dream. Read the rest of this entry »
Luke Gilford’s ‘National Anthem’ to Feature Music by Perfume Genius and Nick Urata
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Luke Gilford, National Anthem, Nick Urata, Perfume Genius
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‘Spinning Gold’ Soundtrack Album Announced
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Evan Bogart, Harvey Mason Jr., Soundtrack, Spinning Gold, Timothy Scott Bogart
Atlantic Records has announced a soundtrack album for the biographical drama Spinning Gold. The album features the songs from the movie, including covers of such classics as Bad Girls, Midnight Train to Georgia, Give Up the Funk & Beth performed by the film’s cast, as well as two original songs written by soundtrack co-writer/producer Evan “Kidd” Bogart, who also serves as the project’s executive music producer of the film, alongside Harvey Mason Jr. The soundtrack will be released digitally on March 31 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. A first track (Pink Sweat$’s cover of Ain’t No Sunshine) is already available to stream/download now and can also be checked out after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
L.U.C. (Lukasz Rostkowski) Scoring Dorota Kobiela’s ‘The Peasants’
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, L.U.C., Łukasz Rostkowski, The Peasants
Polish music producer/rapper/composer Lukasz Rostkowski (aka L.U.C.) is making his feature scoring debut on the upcoming animated feature The Peasants. The film directed by Dorota Kobiela (Loving Vincent) is set at the end of the 19th century and tells the story of a peasant girl who forced to marry a much older, wealthy farmer, despite her love for his son. Kobiela also wrote the screenplay with her Loving Vincent co-director Hugh Welchman based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel of the same title by Wladyslaw Reymont. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Elvis’ Deluxe Edition Soundtrack Album Details
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Music AlbumsTags: Baz Luhrmann, Elvis, Soundtrack
RCA Records has released a deluxe edition soundtrack album for Baz Luhrmann’s biographical drama Elvis. The album features fifteen additional tracks, including four previously unreleased recordings of Presley hits performed by Austin Butler, the Toxic Las Vegas remix by Jamieson Shaw, the new mash-up Backstreet Boss Nova (Daisy O’Dell Remix), and Fly Away Weave by the film’s composer Elliott Wheeler, Butler, Gary Clark Jr., Shannon Sanders, the Nashville Urban Choir, Shonka Dukureh & Lanesha Randolph. Also included are new cover versions: G-Dragon’s and Kacey Musgraves’ & Mark Ronson’s renditions of Can’t Help Falling in Love, Paul Oakenfold’s Rubberneckin’ remix and Kodi Smit-McPhee’s How Do You Think I Feel performance. Visit Amazon or any other major digital music services to stream/download the soundtrack. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Dark Hearts’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Amazon, Cœurs Noirs, Dark Hearts, Eric Neveux, score, Soundtrack, Ziad Doueiri
Mandarin Television has released a soundtrack album for the French Amazon original series Dark Hearts (Cœurs Noirs). The album features the show’s original score composed by Eric Neveux (The Attack, SamSam, Zombillennium, The Illegal, Intimacy, A Stork’s Journey). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and any other major digital music services. Dark Hearts is directed by Ziad Doueiri and stars Nicolas Duvauchelle, Marie Dompnier, Tewfik Jallab, Nina Meurisse, Victor Pontecorvo, Jérémy Nadeau, Thierry Godard, Quentin Faure, and Moussa Maaskri. The 6-parter is set on the eve of the battle for Mosul in 2016 and follows the lives of the members of commando group deployed in Iraq to fight ISIS. Read the rest of this entry »
Rebel Rodriguez Scoring Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Hypnotic’
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Hypnotic, Rebel Rodriguez, Robert Rodriguez
Rebel Rodriguez is reteaming with his father, director Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn, Alita: Battle Angel), to score the upcoming action thriller Hypnotic. The film starring Ben Affleck, Alice Braga, JD Pardo, Dayo Okeniyi, Hala Finley, Jeff Fahey, William Fichtner & Jackie Earle Haley follows a detective who becomes entangled in a mystery involving his missing daughter and a secret government program while investigating a string of reality-bending crimes. The director also wrote the screenplay with Max Borenstein (Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla). Read the rest of this entry »
‘Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery’ Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 7, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery, Incastrati, Netflix, Paolo Buonvino, score, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released the first soundtrack album for the Italian Netflix original series Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery (Incastrati). The album features selections of the show’s original music composed by Paolo Buonvino (Fathers & Daughters, Medici, Fatima, Romanzo Criminale, Quiet Chaos). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery is created by Salvo Ficarra & Valentino Picone and stars Ficarra & Picone themselves, alongside Leo Gullotta, Anna Favella, Tony Sperandeo, Marianna Di Martino, Maurizio Marchetti, Mary Cipolla and Sergio Friscia. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher Bear Scoring Kristian Mercado’s ‘If You Were the Last’
Posted: March 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Christopher Bear, If You Were the Last, Kristian Mercado
Christopher Bear (of the indie rock band Grizzly Bear) has composed the original score for the upcoming sci-fi romantic comedy If You Were the Last. The film is directed by Kristian Mercado and stars Anthony Mackie, Zoë Chao, Natalie Morales and Geoff Stults. The movie follows two astronauts three years into a NASA mission that has gone wrong as they begin a friendly, flirty debate about whether they’re better off spending their remaining days as friends. Angela Bourassa wrote the screenplay. Read the rest of this entry »
‘Ridley Jones’ Season 5 Soundtrack Album Released
Posted: March 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in TV Music AlbumsTags: Christopher Dimond, Jerome Leroy, Layla Minoui, Michael Kooman, Netflix, Ridley Jones, Soundtrack
Netflix Music has released a new soundtrack album for the streamer’s original animated series Ridley Jones. The album features the songs from the show’s fifth season written by Christopher Dimond & Michael Kooman. Also included is a score suite by series composers Layla Minoui (Vampirina, To: Gerard) & Jerome Leroy (The Housemaid, Killers Within). Visit Amazon or any other major digital major services to stream/download the soundtrack. Capitol Records has previously released four soundtracks featuring the songs from Season 1, Season 2, Season 3 & Season 4. Read the rest of this entry »
Dan Romer Scoring Imran J. Khan’s ‘Mustache’
Posted: March 6, 2023 by filmmusicreporter in Film Scoring AssignmentsTags: Dan Romer, Imran J. Khan, Mustache
Dan Romer (Luca, Beasts of the Southern Wild, Station Eleven, Maniac, Beasts of No Nation, Superman & Lois) has composed the original music for the upcoming coming-of-age comedy drama Mustache. The film is written and directed by Imran J. Khan and stars Atharva Verma, Rizwan Manji, Alicia Silverstone, Meesha Shafi, Hasan Minhaj and Ayana Manji. The movie is set in mid-90s in Northern California and revolves around a 13-year-old boy who hatches a plan to return to his old Islamic private school after his parents make him go to public school. Read the rest of this entry »
